- Peter Sellers was an English film actor, comedian and singer
- He performed in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show, featured on a number of hit comic songs and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film characterisations, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series of films
Born: | 08 September 1925 Comment | When did Peter Sellers die? / Died | 24 July 1980 | How many years did Peter Sellers live? / Lived | 54 years | Zodiac sign: | Virgo |
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Who was Peter Sellers? / Facts
- Sellers made his stage debut at the Kings Theatre, Southsea, when he was two weeks old
- He began accompanying his parents in a variety act that toured the provincial theatres
- He first worked as a drummer and toured around England as a member of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA)
- He developed his mimicry and improvisational skills during a spell in Ralph Reader's wartime Gang Show entertainment troupe, which toured Britain and the Far East
- After the war, Sellers made his radio debut in ShowTime, and eventually became a regular performer on various BBC radio shows
- During the early 1950s, Sellers, along with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, took part in the successful radio series The Goon Show, which ended in 1960
- Sellers began his film career during the 1950s
- Although the bulk of his work was comedic-based, often parodying characters of authority such as military officers or policemen, he also performed in other film genres and roles
- Films demonstrating his artistic range include I'm All Right Jack (1959), Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962) and Dr
- Strangelove (1964), What's New, Pussycat? (1965), Casino Royale (1967), The Party (1968), Being There (1979) and the five films of the Pink Panther series (1963–78)
- Sellers's versatility enabled him to portray a wide range of comic characters using different accents and guises, and he would often assume multiple roles within the same film, frequently with contrasting temperaments and styles
- Satire and black humour were major features of many of his films, and his performances had a strong influence on a number of later comedians
- Sellers was nominated three times for an Academy Award, twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performances in Dr
- Strangelove and Being There, and once for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959)
- He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role twice, for I'm All Right Jack and for the original Pink Panther film, The Pink Panther (1963) and was nominated as Best Actor three times
- In 1980 he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role in Being There, and also earned three other Golden Globe nominations in the same category
- Turner Classic Movies calls Sellers "one of the most accomplished comic actors of the late 20th century"
- In his personal life, Sellers struggled with depression and insecurities
- An enigmatic figure, he often claimed to have no identity outside the roles that he played
- His behaviour was often erratic and compulsive, and he frequently clashed with his directors and co-stars, especially in the mid-1970s when his physical and mental health, together with his alcohol and drug problems, were at their worst
- Sellers was married four times, and had three children from his first two marriages
- He died as a result of a heart attack in 1980, aged 54
- English filmmakers the Boulting brothers described Sellers as "the greatest comic genius this country has produced since Charles Chaplin"
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